Actress Elena Butenko. Biography, interesting facts, film and theater roles

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She calls her teachers, who once taught her the acting profession, great masters. According to the teacher, when he teaches others, he himself masters new knowledge. In her student years, Elena had a constant desire to "play a lot and everything." According to her, it didn’t matter for her then whether she would get a big role, a small one or an episodic one. I am sure that modern students of theater universities are similar to her in this respect and just like her, they “want to act”. Elena says with a smile on her face that actors are forced people who are ordered to play in the frame or on the theater stage, that's what they must do.

Her husband, the famous artist Konstantin Raikin, was at first embarrassed that his wife was trying to sing, but now he proudly calls her a professional singer. She has no respect for jealous men who beat women and threaten to kill themselves. According to her confession, when she is jealous, she can only “make some kind of joke”, and her husband in such cases does not even allow himself this. She is told that the kiss on stage is just the fulfillment of the task assigned to the actors by the directors. According to her, creativity islove act. Meet.

General information

Elena Butenko is a theater and film actress. Teaches acting. She is a singer and musician. The track record of a native of the city of Valka includes 9 cinematographic works. She starred in such popular TV series as "Gromovs" and "What the dead man said." She received her first film role in 1987 - in the project Peace to Your Home. In the frame, Elena Butenko interacted with actors: Yulia Rutberg, Grigory Bagrov, Ksenia Entelis and others.

According to the sign of the zodiac, Elena Ivanovna is Scorpio. Married to actor and director Konstantin Raikin. The daughter of Elena and Konstantin is called Polina. She is an actress and teacher.

Biography

Elena Butenko was born on November 3, 1959 in the city of Valki, located in the Kharkov region. In the early 1980s she studied at the Saratov Theater School. At the same time, she entered into an employment contract with the Saratov Drama Theater, on the stage of which she appeared in productions: Hecuba, Eccentrics according to M. Gorky, Weeping Willow, Valencian Madmen. In 1982, she moved to the city of Orel to get a job at the local Youth Theater. Here she participated in the performances "Troilus and Cressida" by W. Shakespeare, "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (as Colombino).

Career

In 1985, Elena Butenko became a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School. She studied with teachers A. Popov and V. Markov. Then she was accepted into the theater "Satyricon", of which she is today. Our heroine works fortelevision, acting in films, participating in various musical projects. In 1998, Elena Butenko released a disc called "Lullaby for Men". Before that, she presented the variety show "Mask of Love" to the audience. In 2000, she staged the musical play Madame, Already….

In 2002 he got a job as a teacher at the Moscow Art Theater School, where he will work until 2013. In 2008 he will travel to the USA to conduct master classes in acting. In 2017, Elena Butenko created the audio performance "The Road Goes Away", based on the book of the writer A. Ya. Brushtein.